Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams

Re:Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSear... by dathinab on Thursday July 01, 2021 @08:28AM (#27698427)

Because on SO you:

- get multiple answers

- comments on the answers

- up/down votes

- explanations along side of the answer

and I still would argue you should never copy from stack overflow!! Instead understand why the answer is correct and then write your code based on that understanding, even if it produces the exact same code in the end.

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Re:Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSear... by pyrale on Thursday July 01, 2021 @09:07AM (#27698702)

Also, to get answers on SO you have taken the time to elaborate a question. Building up the right question is a significant part in the process of understanding.

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Re:Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSear... by emodendroket on Thursday July 01, 2021 @09:25AM (#27698802)

The vast majority of visits to SO are by people who don't even have an account. They're not asking questions themselves.

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Re:Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSear... by pyrale on Thursday July 01, 2021 @10:12AM (#27699217)

They may not be authors of the question on SO, but to find that question you need to search for it, and it is not uncommon that doing so takes more than one research/thread parsing. In the end, finding the relevant SO answer is not unlike asking a good question in the first place.

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Re:Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSear... by emodendroket on Thursday July 01, 2021 @10:31AM (#27699398)

If the question is more complex than "how do you do a parameterized query with ActiveRecord?" it's unlikely autocomplete is doing it for you either.

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